Dr. Joe R. Zhao is an exceptionally creative engineer with outstanding contributions in innovation, entrepreneurship, and manufacturing. His inventions have addressed some key issues in wastewater treatment and energy conservation. As an entrepreneur, he founded and for over 20 years has led a private-sector laboratory which has provided high-end employment for Canadian engineers and established Canada's leadership in several technologies in fields of critical importance to society. As an engineering leader, he created and guided several successful manufacturing enterprises in Canada and ...

Jack Young has been eminently successful in the generation and application of new knowledge associated with primary steelmaking operations. With over forty years' experience, he has provided exceptional engineering leadership in simulation modelling and commissioning of numerous steelmaking plants within Canada and abroad. He has coauthored a textbook entitled 'Metallurgical Plant Design' and made significant contributions to the training of engineers in industry as well as engineering students at both McGill and the University of Toronto. Throughout his distinguished career, Young has ...

Dr. Peiying Zhu is a visionary technical leader who has made fundamental contributions to the design and standardization of the current fourth-generation (4G) and the coming fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies at Nortel and Huawei Canada. She was the leading figure in driving the industry to adopt the MIMO-OFDM technology into the 4G standard. This achievement had created extraordinary impact not only in the direction of wireless industry but also on our daily lives. Dr. Zhu is a pioneer and a leading expert on 5G technologies. Her innovations have helped transform the wireless ...

Dr. Norman Zhou, Canada Research Chair in Advanced Materials Joining and Processing, is an internationally renowned leader in processing of materials such as fabrication of nanomaterials for water treatment and nanodevice assembly, microjoining for electronic and medical implant packaging, and welding of light-weight materials for automotive applications. He has published over 400 refereed journal papers and several books, with Google Scholar citations over 13,000 and an h-index over 60. He has trained over 100 MASc and PhD graduate students and post-doctoral fellows. He has co-founded a ...

Zhang is nominated due to his conceptual contribution of single-atom catalysis and innovative catalysts for biomass conversion. As one of the most-prominent scientists in heterogeneous catalysis worldwide, Zhang devoted to synthesize low cost metal catalysts for chemical production. The new concept of single-atom catalysis stimulates to discover next-generation of industrial catalysts and promote the understanding to an atomic level. His contributions to the biomass conversion, especially the unique process for cellulose conversion to EG, have evoked intense interests from both academia and ...

Dr. Yi Zhang is a world-renowned expert in real-time power-system simulation. He has provided exceptional leadership as VP R&D and CTO of RTDS Technologies Inc., the world’s largest real-time simulator manufacturer. He has personally developed and directed the development of many key features that make real-time simulation relevant in today’s environment. These include advanced models for new converter topologies, renewable resources and interfaces to the communication layers that control modern large power-systems. He has served in many IEEE/CIGRE working groups and journal ...

Shiping Zhu is Professor, Canada Research Chair, and Department Chair of McMaster Chemical Engineering. He pioneered the reaction engineering research of controlled/living radical polymerization. He is a world leading expert and has made major contributions to understanding and development of advanced polymerization technologies and to establishing polymer structure-property relationships. His work emphasizes engineering fundamentals and problem solving, and is of high impact. He has trained over fifty highly qualified personnel and published over two hundred refereed journal papers. He is ...

Lieutenant-general Paul Wynnyk serves as Vice Chief of Defence Staff. In doing so, he has shown exemplary leadership and commitment representing Canada by leading or overseeing military missions in the Balkans, Africa, South East Asia, Afghanistan and Eastern Europe, while earning the respect and accolades of Canadian allies and the troops under his command. He is an impressive role model for all engineers, not only those serving in the military, and is a wonderful public example of the value of engineers and engineering within the Canadian military.

Dr. John Yeow is widely recognized for his pioneering contributions to the fields of microsystems and nanodevices research, particularly as they apply to medical and therapeutic instruments. His work has had a broad and seminal impact - from discovery to industrial innovation. He was the first to develop a 3-dimensional (3D) micromachine-based optical coherent tomographic (OCT) imaging system that acquired the world's first 3D-OCT images of the central nervous system of a fruit fly. This technology enabled the realization of a highly miniaturized catheter for early cancer diagnosis in human ...

Dr. Gu Xu is recognized for his innovative solutions, bridgingfundamental science and creative engineering, to a number of critical and long standing problems, including the revelation of organic memorymechanism, and the elucidation of degradation in organic lightemitting devices that enabled their commercialization. In addition,hydrogen storage saturation was uncovered to clarify the controversy,and lateral structure of multiwall nanotubes was resolved by his novelX-ray imaging methods. The discoveries were mostly published byleading science and engineering journals, which were ...